PITTSBURGH — Everything Sidney Crosby and Michel Therrien said Tuesday, it seemed Joe Sakic and Joel Quenneville had said three weeks ago. And, the Nashville Predators and Dallas Stars said similar things this postseason.

“We’re excited to be back home, after two straight routs at Joe Louis Arena.” “We have to keep it simple and play desperate hockey.” “We have to get a win.”

But how does anybody come up with a game plan to beat the Detroit Red Wings right now? The Pittsburgh Penguins came home Tuesday trying to figure that out, after two consecutive shutout defeats in Detroit.

The consensus with the Penguins seems to lean toward a pack-it-in, 1-0 or 2-1 type of game as the only way to beat Detroit now. But that hasn’t been Pittsburgh’s style all year, so it’s a little late to be changing personality.

Penguins coach Therrien may have no other choice.

“Obviously, we need to generate a lot more offense than we did in the last two games,” Therrien said. “I mean, better puck support, attack with speed, taking better decisions with the puck. We need to use our speed a lot more than we did. But in the meantime, they did a great job to take away our speed. So we’ve got to move our feet.”

Red Wings coach Mike Babcock, meanwhile, is content to watch other teams talk in frustration about solving the Rubik’s Cube that is his team right now. No matter how you want to play against these Wings — finesse, chippy, a little of both — Babcock’s team has all the answers.

The jut-jawed Wings coach doesn’t want to hear the old cliche about how the visiting team has to “weather the storm” early on in an opponent’s first home game in a series.

“We talked about that today,” Babcock said. “What everyone says in the playoffs is: ‘OK, you’re the visiting team, you have to always weather the storm.’ Why is that? Do we hear that enough that we make that true, or is there a reason we can’t be the storm? I know what we’re going to try to prepare for is having the best opening 10 minutes that we can have, just like we try to do each and every night.”

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